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Gabrielle Ganter, 30, was charged following an investigation that included necroposies after Bergen County Animal Control removed the carcasses and live animals from the Brook Avenue residence on May 13, law enforcement authorities told CLIFFVIEW PILOT tonight.
The complaints include not providing food, water, proper shelter or veterinary care under Title 4:22-17.
Investigators said attempts failed to reach Ganger, who operates Pit Bull Kisses Rescue and is associated with the Humane Society of Newark.
She’s scheduled to answer the charges in Central Municipal Court in Hackensack a week from tomorrow.
If she doesn’t show up, a warrant for her arrest will be issued, authorities said.
Police alerted SPCA investigators after finding the dead animals in plastic garbage bags in the house and the live dogs — as well as a starved cat — chained in the yard without proper shelter.
PHOTOS: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SPCA
“They were were extremely thin,” one law enforcement official told CLIFFVIEW PILOT, adding that conditions inside the house were “horrid.”
The live dogs and cat were being held at the Bergen County Animal Shelter pending the closure of the case, after which there could be adoptions, another said.
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